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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested suspected vandals involved in the looting and theft of items from an accidented truck along the Calabar–Itu Highway.
On 10 May 2026, at about 22:00 hours, operatives of the command acted swiftly on credible intelligence provided by a tricycle operator regarding the activities of criminal elements vandalising and stealing from a truck that had fallen into a valley at Afaha along the Calabar–Itu Highway.
Counsel to Opu Nembe Kingdom, Barrister Chigozie Inwere, has criticised Aiteo’s resort to what he described as technicalities and frivolous interlocutory appeals to delay justice in the kingdom’s over N122 billion oil pollution suit.
The Opu Nembe Kingdom in Nembe and Brass Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State is seeking legal redress over environmental damage allegedly caused by oil spills from Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 in 2019 and 2020.
Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command have arrested two suspected arms suppliers and recovered a locally made revolver pistol in Ikot Ekpene as part of ongoing efforts to dismantle criminal networks and curb illegal arms proliferation in the state.
The suspects, identified as Udeme Udo, 52, and Nkereuwem Udo, 40, were arrested on 8 May 2026 at about 4:25 am following credible intelligence.
A prosecution witness on Friday told the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, how a property at No. 35 Danube Street, Maitama, was allegedly purchased for the naira equivalent of ₦950 million, paid in United States dollars, in the ongoing trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello.
The witness, PW15, Ramalan Abdullahi, a legal practitioner with the Federal Capital Development Authority, testified before Justice Maryanne Anineh that he was contacted in January 2022 by a friend who requested that he conduct due diligence on the property after agents introduced it for sale.
Suspected hoodlums fled into the forest on sighting advancing operatives of the newly established Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU) during an intelligence-led tactical raid on their hideout along Ikot Abasi Road in Abak, Akwa Ibom State.
The raid, carried out at about 3:30pm on 7 May 2026, targeted a forest camp identified by police as a notorious gathering point for suspected criminals allegedly involved in hard drug abuse and planning attacks on unsuspecting residents and members of the public.
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, May 7, 2026, convicted a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, on 12 counts of money laundering amounting to N33.8 billion.
The former minister, who was absent from court, was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for money laundering to the tune of N33,804,830,503,73 (Thirty-Three Billion, Eight Hundred and Four Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand, Five Hundred and Three Naira, Seventy-Three Kobo).
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, 5 May 2026, arraigned Metro Digital Limited before Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on an amended four-count charge bordering on cybercrime and the alleged unlawful interception and rebroadcast of Multichoice Nigeria Limited content.
Prosecution counsel, Steve E. Odiase, informed the court that the matter was scheduled for arraignment.
Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe State High Court has convicted and sentenced Magistrate Muhammad Suleiman Kumo to two years and six months’ imprisonment for bribery.
Kumo was initially arraigned on 3 December 2025 by the Gombe Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on three counts of bribery.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on 5 May 2026 arraigned Dr Andefiki Markus before Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State, over an alleged N20 million cattle investment fraud.
Markus was arraigned by the Gombe Zonal Directorate of the EFCC on two counts bordering on obtaining by false pretence.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has recorded another major operational success in its sustained crackdown on criminal activities in the state.
Acting on the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Baba Mohammed Azare, to intensify raids on identified criminal hideouts and dismantle unlawful networks, operatives of the command carried out a successful intelligence-led operation in Abak Local Government Area.